In episode 132 of the guitar music theory podcast I answer listener questions plus talk about the song

Diamonds on the Souls of her shoes by Paul Simon I'm going to readings guitar engineers welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. I am your host Desi Cerna.

So today I want to take a little bit of time to talk about the really cool South African style guitar you hear played at the beginning of Diamonds and the

Souls of her shoes by Paul Simon as featured on the album Graceland.

I posted a video to my YouTube channel and Facebook page so if you want to see my

video breakdown which includes some tapature you can go to either platform and search

Desi Cerna diamonds Diamonds, something like that.

And it should probably come up.

There's some really neat things to talk about with that song.

It's used in major scales and some cage chord forms

and the way that lead line fits over a 145 progression. then I'm going to take the rest of today's episode and answer some listener questions

I've got questions about the guitar tone used for the running down a dream solo by Tom Petty.

I've got a couple different questions about modes.

I've got questions about worship guitar and getting prepared for Sunday.

So it's going to be a great discussion. But before we get started, let me direct all of my podcast

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you can have more fun and move forward and

reach your music goals. I will help you figure it out. I'll put you on a plan to

fill gaps in your playing and fill gaps in your knowledge and I'll give you a

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